Not content with the original dozen cartoons of Muhammad, the Danish People's party launched a competition for people to draw even more cartoons - but this group was to be deliberately humiliating and hurtful if possible. A video was created of the competition and the Danish state TV aired some of the footage. So who will receive death threats: the TV station or the political party?

The images, filmed by artist Martin Rosengaard Knudsen who posed as a member of the party for several months to document attitudes among young members, show a number of young people drinking, singing and drawing cartoons ridiculing the Prophet.

The faces of the young people were blurred in most of the footage. One cartoon, said to depict The Prophet as a camel, urinating and drinking beer, was also blurred. The competition took place in early August, according to Danish media.

Source: Reuters

I don't have a problem with people using ridicule and mockery as tools for critique and as a means for undermining unjust authority. When people use the same tools for no other reason than to harm, though, it's not such a good idea. It's not clear to me what this group hoped to accomplish. If they wanted to make it easier for people to criticize Islam at will, then perhaps the cause was reasonable.

 

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